3 Quick HTML Tips

1) Learn CSS. Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a stylesheet language used to describe the presentation of a document written in a markup language. Its most common application is to style web pages written in HTML and XHTML, but the language can be applied to any kind of XML document, including SVG and XUL. The CSS specifications are maintained by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

CSS is what makes a webpage "look" good. You can download and real a free CSS level 1 ebook (3683 KB) here. The eBook is in zip format. You will need an unzipper; if you do not have one, you can find one online by searching "zipper." The files are saved under Microsoft Word.

2) Always use the W3C's Markup Validation Service, a free service that checks Web documents in formats like HTML and XHTML for conformance to W3C Recommendations and other standards. The service checks your HTML to errors. Go to http://validator.w3.org/.

3) When typing HTML, you will find that HTML somtimes repeats. Instead of typing everything out, use the keyboard short-cuts. They Will save you time.